Review: The Shiralee (Sydney Theatre Company)
A powerful, poetic adaptation exploring masculinity, parenthood and redemption in outback Australia’s heart.
A powerful, poetic adaptation exploring masculinity, parenthood and redemption in outback Australia’s heart.
Australian classics reimagined; Joanna Murray-Smith returns to Patricia Highsmith; two recent Melbourne hits included in the calendar.
Provocative and complex, Ella Hickson’s play about the inter-connected realms of empire, resource exploitation and our future rewards the effort it demands.
Melbourne Theatre Company's Sunday is a brilliantly realised ode to some of the most important figures in modern Australian art.
Anthony Weigh's play breathes imaginative life into the story of Sunday Reed and the Heide circle.
While some scenes sing, others feel underdone, nonetheless this production of Arthur Miller's play remains a powerful experience.
A raunchy romantic comedy tackling big ideas, themes and power structures.
Though entertaining as a bio-drama, the writing doesn't get under the skin of the characters enough to have much of an emotional impact.
Six Australian plays, five of them new, a Tony Award-winning musical and contemporary writing from overseas – all relevant to today, says AD Brett Sheehy.
Zahra Newman and Hugo Weaving give dazzling performances, but the production doesn’t entirely hit home.
Highlights include an epic in Sydney Town Hall, a new play about the Packer Dynasty, and Colin Friels in Life of Galileo.
Shelagh Delaney's debut play remains just as vivid and perceptive as ever.
A complex love letter to Sydney, Alana Valentine’s new play tracks the lives of three generations of working class women.